Trader to the Stars Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Trader to the Stars.

Trader to the Stars Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Trader to the Stars.
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Trader to the Stars opens with remarks by "Le Matelot" (The Sailor), who declares in part: "Because today we are sailing out among the stars, we are more akin to Europeans overrunning America or Greeks colonizing the Mediterranean littoral than to our ancestors of only a few generations ago. We, too, are discoverers, pioneers, traders, missionaries, composers of epic and saga."

This represents the principal theme of the book: that those who will travel in outer space will be frontiersmen. Some of these adventurers will be bandits, but others will be like Nicholas Van Rijn — daring people who use their wits to open up the universe to humanity and commerce.

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